fear is to be lying there waiting to die and thinking, why didn't I spend more time with my children?"(Greenberg 65). A friend of their's said, "The suddenness of success put an unbearable strain on the marriage. Fame and money are what destroyed it." (Schindette 2). Despite the rocky endings and solid beginnings Clancy has struggled through in his personal life, there is no doubt that his work has in no way suffered.Though Clancy did not publish any books till later in life, he became involved in writing at an early age. Clancy remembers that "The writing bug bit me when I was in highschool. I was having a rather hard junior year, so I got myself a typewriter and began putting things down on paper" (Cohen 2). In 1971, Clancy read the book Day of the Jackal, by Frederic Forsyth, which inspired Clancy to begin writing thrillers (Cohen 3). Clancy then quit his job, bought a typewriter and began to write on his kitchen table. Clancy's feelings on beginning to write were, "I was going to devote time to doing something I've wanted to do really since high school, which was to write a book and have it published and see my name on the cover" (Cerasini 59). Clancy wrote from November of 1982 to February of 1983, to finish the book later published as The Hunt for Red October (Cerasini 59). When Clancy had finished the book, he took immediate steps for it to be published, "The next day I drove it up to the Naval Institute in Annapolis and just left it there and waited for their judgment, which came three weeks later. They said they really like it" (Cerasini 59). However, what followed was something Clancy never imagined would happen. He describes his hopes for the outcome of his writing by saying, "When I wrote Red October I though maybe we'd sell maybe 5,000 or 10,000 hard covers and that would be the end of it. I never really thought about making money" (Greenberg 123). Clancy was mistaken, since the sales for his new books had ...
